Note: As if parked cars bursting into flame in the middle of the night and burning down homes and businesses wasn't bad enough, now cars are just pouncing on people! I can almost hear the 'Jaws' theme music playing...

Quote: "A man is listed in critical condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after his vehicle reportedly crossed six lanes of traffic on Lake Shore Drive and ended up in Lake Michigan near Balbo Drive."

Quote: "A minivan drove through a grassy area outside the Round Lake Heights Police Department and into a retention pond Monday afternoon, fire officials said. The van with one occupant went into the pond about 4:40 p.m. The situation was not weather-related..."

Quote: "A car struck two people waiting at a bus stop early Sunday evening and crashed into a building, injuring three people in the car, according to police. Police believe the driver suffered a seizure and ran off the road."

Quote: "Authorities are searching for the student and instructor aboard a small plane believed to have gone down Wednesday night (Nov. 12) in Lake Pontchartrain near Lakefront Airport, according to the U.S. Coast Guard."

Note: Might wanna make sure you have a strong airplane-proof umbrella these days!

Quote: "The Ka-32 helicopter was making a test flight as it made the rough landing and caught fire at 18:35 Moscow time (1535 GMT). There were five people on board at the moment of the crash. The captain of the helicopter was killed in the accident, while four others suffered from injuries of various degrees..."

Quote: "The impact was so strong it knocked the driver of the pickup truck out of his shoes. Both women and the man driving the pickup truck were transported to a local hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Police are unsure why the women's car crossed the center line."

Quote: "Fire crews were called at 8:38 a.m. to the Holiday gas station at 41st and Western Avenue after a truck that was parked and left running off to the side of the store started moving and struck the pump. Sioux Falls Fire Department Capt. Garett Dulaney said the driver of the truck was inside the gas station at the time."

Note: The day prior, an unoccupied fire truck rolled away, hit a pole and parked car, and the pole fell on the car, in Phoenix (Arizona), mentioned in the 2014-11-09 update...

Quote: "While an autopsy has yet to be done, coroners believe the victim suffered from a medical episode before the crash. The mystery is more than just who died in the burning van, but also how it happened. The scene showed tire marks where the victim had ran off the side of the road long before crashing into the tree."

Note: I bet she got hit by a whiff of hydrogen sulfide near that creek and lost consciousness, or had a seizure, or died, and the van kept going. And because hydrogen sulfide is so reactive and so flammable, when this happens, fire often breaks out. Fires in vehicles used to be rare, but that's not the case anymore...

Quote: "Photos show rescuers scaling piles of debris at the Grand Bahama Shipyard only three miles away from the Freeport airport, where the aircraft 'exploded on impact' while attempting to land, the Tribune wrote."

Quote: "Phoenix Fire spokesman Mark Vanacore said firefighters left the truck parked outside the complex while they went to check out a medical call. Vanacore said while crews were inside the complex, they heard a crash and when they went back to the truck, they found it had left its parked position and hit a light pole and a parked vehicle with no one inside."

Note: They say he lost consciousness because of diabetic shock. There's no way to know from his corpse why he lost consciousness. He may have been foaming at the mouth though, so they may have assumed diabetic shock. Two youngish men died foaming at the mouth in their car in Asaba (Nigeria), mentioned in the 2013-12-12 update. Quite a few people have been found mysteriously dead and foaming at the mouth in recent times...

Quote: "As Prochner left the plane, he could see where the propeller sliced through the plane 'The people sitting in that row were very lucky,' he said."

Quote: "After the propeller sliced through the fuselage, the forward landing gear broke away, George said. 'I looked out the window, just looking over my shoulder,' she said. 'The ground was pretty close. I could have swore that I could stick my arm out the window and touch the ground. We were just riding along the airstrip on the belly of the plane.'"

Quote: "A passenger on board an Air Canada flight that made an emergency landing at Edmonton International Airport Thursday night described seeing sparks after a second tire on the plane blew out upon landing."

Note: First link has a pic of the hole in the fuselage and I guess that's a propeller sticking into the plane. From the full hypothesis: "As planes land, they will more frequently blow tires, or their landing gear will collapse, or they will run off runways."

Quote: "A tractor-trailer crash may cause some delays for drivers headed south from North Carolina into South Carolina along U.S. 25. The Highway Patrol initially reported there were injuries reported in the accident that happened near Gap Creek Road about 6:30 a.m."

Quote: "There have been a series of operational accidents involving naval vessels since August last year. In August 2013, 18 sailors died in one of the navy's worst disasters when a submarine sank after a fire at a dockyard in Mumbai."

Quote: "More than 26 people lost their lives in separate vehicle accidents in Lagos and Kwara states. Twenty people lost their lives in a tanker fire in Kwara State while five others were burnt to death when a runaway truck driver collided with three vehicles including two stationary tankers in the Igando area of Lagos. The fire was caused by an accident involving a tanker laden with petrol that burst into flames, the petrol conveyed by the tanker poured out and spread to nearby houses. The fire raged for many hours and destroyed houses, shops and property valued at millions of naira."

Quote: "Fadipe also disclosed that the agency has responded to three other fire outbreaks at different locations in the state from 9pm on Monday to 6am Tuesday. He stated that among the situations was an outbreak at Total Filling Station, Ile Zik, Agege, as well as that involving locked-up shops beside Great Nigeria Insurance House, Martins Street, Lagos Island, which consumed six of the shops. The fire service also responded to a call at Ayobo-Aiyetoro Road, Itele, caused by a petroleum tanker."

Quote: "On Nov 3, 2014, around 5 a.m. the 'Explorer of the Seas' was hit by a freak wave of 12 meters height and was damaged. Two lifeboats on deck 4 were dislodged and crashed on the Promenade deck, and water flushed through glass doors and flooded the interior of the ship."

Quote: "He said six people died on the scene and that an unspecified number of injured people were taken to a hospital. The state broadcaster CCTV said more than 20 people were injured. Donghai Bridge connects China's financial metropolis Shanghai with a deep-water port in the East China Sea. With a length of 32.5 kilometers (20.2 miles), it is one of the longest cross-sea bridges in the world."

Quote: "According to the Department of Public Safety, the accident involved just one vehicle and occurred around 9 p.m. on State Route 88 near Canyon Lake. The Superstition Fire & Medical District said the vehicle went off a 100-foot cliff. Batt. Chief Jeff Cranmer said crews were hampered by darkness, limited access and a steep drop to the water's edge."